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VIENNA – A major Austrian newspaper has apologized for printing a death notice that carried the Nazi storm troop rank of the deceased. The announcement of the death of Lois Plock in the Kleine Zeitung noted that he was an “Untersturmfuehrer” — a paramilitary rank of Hitler’s special SS forces. …

President Biden said Wednesday that he thinks Israel’s military operation in Gaza will stop when Hamas “no longer maintains the capacity to murder, abuse, and do horrific things to the Israelis.” Speaking at a press conference after his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Biden called on the Israeli military …

National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby mocked the upcoming Russian presidential election while speaking with the press aboard Air Force One. Kirby, answering questions from the press, was asked for comment on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement he was running to retain his office. “Well, that’s going to be one …

The North Korean regime hosted an expensive function this week to gather the country’s elites for a meeting. The Central Committee of the North Korean Workers’ Party gathered in Pyongyang on Tuesday for the plenary meeting to review policies leading into the new year. Officials arrived in luxurious Mercedes S-class …

Iraq has condemned the United States after U.S. forces carried out a drone strike in central Baghdad on Thursday that killed a high-ranking militia commander. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said Friday that the U.S. targeting and killing Mushtaq Taleb al-Saidi — or “Abu Taqwa,” the leader of the …

CAIRO – Egypt’s foreign minister says his country is hosting the second meeting of Syrian opposition this year in a bid to champion a political process amid an international and regional focus on a military solution to the conflict now in its fifth year. Sameh Shoukry spoke Monday at the …

LONDON – A Nobel Prize-winning British scientist who said there was “trouble with girls” working in laboratories has resigned from his honorary post at University College London. Tim Hunt apologized for his remarks at the World Conference of Science Journalists in South Korea but had stood by his assertion that …

BUDAPEST, Hungary – Hungary’s prime minster says the government will consider “all options,” including a physical barrier on the southern border with Serbia, to stem the increased flow of migrants. Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Friday on state radio that “migration is dangerous” and that the government will hear the …

BERLIN – The United Nations’ human rights chief is urging European nations to accept more refugees and to do more to fight prejudice and discrimination against migrants once they arrive. Zeid Raad al-Hussein told the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday that he was “shocked and shamed by …

UNITED NATIONS – A high-level panel urged a major overhaul of U.N. peacekeeping operations Tuesday that would make political solutions the paramount goal, speed up deployment of peacekeepers, and require the naming and shaming of countries whose troops commit acts of sexual abuse. The panel delivered its report to U.N. …